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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Unlucky stiffs.
(b) Budding criminals.
(c) Rats.
(d) Lazy varmits.

2. What did Mayhew call the fact that many would rather starve than accept charity?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Admirable.

3. What were fences in the section by John Binny?
(a) A way to keep your business from your neighbor's eyes.
(b) How the government separated the criminal sections of town from other areas.
(c) The way the rich did not have to think about the poor.
(d) Receivers of stolen goods.

4. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?
(a) As a sentimental, comic, tragic two-act play.
(b) As a serious morals tale.
(c) As a farcical tragedy.
(d) He does not give it a description.

5. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?
(a) Drivers of horse-drawn omnibuses.
(b) Dentists.
(c) Physicians.
(d) Bakers.

6. Why did the puppeteer sometimes change the content of the Punch and Judy play?
(a) He'd get bored with it.
(b) He never
(c) He wanted to have a moral to be learned.
(d) He tailored it to specific audiences.

7. When did the one homeless shelter open?
(a) From 7 to 8 pm nightly during the winter.
(b) When temperatures dropped below freezing.
(c) During the summer months only.
(d) Every night of the year.

8. What puppeteer did Mayhew interview?
(a) His own brother.
(b) His own cousin.
(c) A former gentleman's footman.
(d) A friend who went to school with him when he was a boy.

9. What had recently become illegal in London?
(a) Gerrymandering.
(b) Pornography including obscene books and pictures.
(c) Tobacco use.
(d) Alcohol use.

10. How were street folk different from patterers?
(a) Street folk would try to sell wares along with their entertaining.
(b) Patterers used entertainment to sell a product and street folk entertain for tips.
(c) Patterers never sold wares.
(d) They were exactly the same; just a different term.

11. What motivated the clown to continue working?
(a) His fear of failure.
(b) He will be arrested for breaking a contract.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) He likes the work if it wasn't for the lack of prestige.

12. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Mobility.
(c) The force of breath.
(d) The necessity of finding food.

13. According to the author, how did the gypsy women make money?
(a) Tattooing.
(b) Taking in wash.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Fortune telling.

14. What does Mayhew say humans must do?
(a) Work for a living.
(b) Help one another.
(c) Be good stewards of the animal kingdom.
(d) Be good stewards of the plant kingdom.

15. What is a "Patent American Air Preserver"?
(a) An instrument that measures the amount of pollution in the air.
(b) A Patent that the photographer applied for in the patent office.
(c) A way of keeping insects off your person.
(d) A bogus product the photographer sold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have many tried to do according to the narrator?

2. For how long had the clown worked in that capacity?

3. Where was the fire eater educated?

4. What did some people who was physically and mentally able to work do?

5. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?

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